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Definition of "smarm" []

  • Smarmy speech or behavior. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "smarm" in a sentence
  • "Many will not find this kind of smarm funny in such a serious matter as the election date."
  • "We'd been together for more than 10 years and I'd had a bellyful of the 'smarm' and yearned for a bit of rough handling by a big clunking fist."
  • "Mrs. Grimble recommenced the client interrogatory, turning on the smarm."
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